News

July 20, 2010 17:00

• Medvedev offers tougher sanctions for terrorism

  After the recent resonant terror acts committed in Russia, President Dmitri Medvedev has brought in a bill to the State Duma on amending the Russia's Criminal Code.

July 20, 2010 16:00

• Kabardino-Balkaria opens youth camp "Caucasus-2020"

  On July 19, the city of Nalchik hosted an opening ceremony of the youth tent camp "Caucasus-2020", located on the coast of the picturesque Kurortnoe Lake, where more than one thousand young men from all Russia - from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad - gathered.

July 20, 2010 15:00

• Georgia: schoolbook about 2008 war with Russia presented

  In Tbilisi, a book was presented entitled "Russian Aggression in My Eyes", dedicated to the Russian-Georgian military conflict in August 2008.

July 20, 2010 14:00

• Members of the Board under Russian President ask Medvedev to defend human rights activists in Chechnya

  The Board for Assisting to Development of Civil Society Institutes and Human Rights under Russian President sent an appeal to Russian leader asking to protect human rights activists, including the employees of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", who work in Chechnya, against the threats pronounced by local president Ramzan Kadyrov, and ensure their normal working conditions.

July 20, 2010 13:00

• One of women detained in Dagestan prepared self-blowing in Moscow, power agencies say

  According to a high-ranking source in power agencies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), one of the six women detained on July 12 in Makhachkala was going to come to Moscow in July and commit a terror act there.

July 20, 2010 12:00

• UN to rebuild burnt-down houses in Gal District of Abkhazia

  In the village of Dikhazurga, Gal District, the burnt-down houses of local residents will be rebuilt in the near future. This became known today after the regular meeting within the mechanism for prevention and reaction to incidents held in the city of Gal.

July 20, 2010 11:00

• Armenia and Russia agree about joint military production facilities

  Konstantin Biryulin, deputy director of the Russian Federal Service of Military-Technical Cooperation, has discussed, in the course of his visit to Yerevan, with the Armenian party the opportunity of creating joint military-technical facilities and of involvement of Armenian enterprises in the Russian-Belarusian Financial and Industrial Group "Defence Systems".

July 20, 2010 10:00

• Action against new HPP held in Armenia

  On July 19, residents of the Gegarkunik Region of Armenia held a protest action against construction of a Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) in their district. The protesters blocked the Yerevan-Martuni Highway demanding not to start the construction.

July 20, 2010 09:00

• Infrastructure and communications added to settlement for residents of landslide zone in Ingushetia

  The Malgobek District of Ingushetia continues building a residential settlement for the people who live in the territory of the landslide zone. The first resettlers move in back on June 4, but the process of building the infrastructure and laying down communications is not over yet.

July 20, 2010 01:00

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 12-18

  One year after Natalia Estemirova's murder; forced eviction of Imereti residents from "Olympic" lands; start of ethnographic expedition of Russian bloggers to the Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of July 12-18, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

July 19, 2010 22:00

• Residents of Imereti Lowland continue resisting resettlement

  Eviction of residents is in full swing in the Imereti Lowland, a district of Sochi, where construction of the large Olympic Stadium is planned. However, because of inadequate, in the opinion of residents, compensations they continue protesting and bringing actions.

July 19, 2010 21:00

• Constitutional Commission approves draft amendments to Constitution of Georgia

  The draft of the new Constitution of Georgia was adopted by the majority of the members of the State Constitutional Commission: 44 votes were cast for the amendments, and only three members voted against.

July 19, 2010 19:00

• In Azerbaijan, resident of Dagestan is sentenced to four years of imprisonment

  Today, Telman Mamedov, Judge of the Kusar District Court of Azerbaijan, passed a verdict on the criminal case of Usman Garisov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of drug contraband and use. The convict was awarded four years of minimum security prison.

July 19, 2010 18:00

• In South Ossetia, Russian frontier guards detain Georgian citizens

  As reported by the press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, on July 18, six citizens of Georgia were detained by servicemen of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia for illegal border crossing in the Znaur District of this republic.

July 19, 2010 17:00

• Grand Prix of "Golden Apricot" Festival awarded to Turkish film director

  The main prize of the 7th International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" was awarded to the Turkish film director Rekha Erdem for his film "Space".

July 19, 2010 15:00

• Astrakhan: health condition of hunger-striking teachers gets worse

  Ambulances are called to the teachers holding their protest hunger strike several times in day: three of them were offered hospitalization; the condition of one more protester causes special doctor's alarm - if sugar in his blood will drops by one point more, he is under threat of coma. Despite it, none of the 19 persons who take part in the hunger strike is going to stop the action.

July 19, 2010 14:00

• In South Ossetia, July 20 announced mourning day on victims of Transkam accident

  An extraordinary session of the government and parliament of South Ossetia made a decision to announce July 20 the mourning day on the victims of the bus falling in to the abyss from the Trans-Caucasian Highway (know as "Transkam") on July 18.

July 19, 2010 11:00

• First batch of foreign passports arrived to Abkhazia

  The first batch of Abkhazian passports for travels abroad made in Russia was brought to Sukhumi.

July 19, 2010 10:00

• Children football team from Dagestan is prize-winner of international tournament in Austria

  The children football team "Locomotive-NCRW" (North-Caucasian Railways) from the capital of Dagestan has won the third place in the prestigious international tournament, which was held in the Austrian city of Wels this July.

July 19, 2010 09:00

• Abkhazian President arrives in Nicaragua

  On July 18, the delegation of Abkhazia headed by President Sergey Bagapsh has arrived with the first official visit to the city of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua.